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Case FileNARA NAID 28966693 · T1206 Roll 25

Project Blue Book Case File

Booneville, MissouriAugust 1956

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Booneville, Missouri in August 1956. The full case file (4 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 25.

Reported location

Booneville, Missouri

Date of incident

August 1956

State / country

MO / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4
Transcribed text
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS |
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gust 1956 | Booneville, Missourz fl Brebably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. YYPE OF OBSERVATION Rot abhor chit |
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emt 07, 07152 0 Air Visual (3 Air-Intercept Radar id Possibly Aircrafy
5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE 0 Was Astronowical Mot eay
O Yes FIX robably Astronomical
2 No Civilian [5 Possibly Astronemical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE =~ (0, Other |
; {0 insufficient Data for Evaluation
| v 0 Unknown |
eR RR ee One. 0 DL MeBREYAY. te |
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING I. COMMENTS |
One oblong object with a yellowish | Probably meteor sighting with
; ghite c¢resen tail, Size about size of | slight overestimation on dura- : |
football at arm's length. Object was | tion. Description aud all cther
toners Obhiect traveled three quar- | jata supports thi analvsis, !
tapered, Object tra ‘ ] | PI : |
ters of the sky 1n a westerly direc- | |
tion at an altitude of ‘eight to ten | |
thousand fagt Oh oaoer 1 > pbserved 1 ; |
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visuallv' and through binoculars for | [
period of one minute, Object disa- |
ppeared by gradually d=2cresasing in she 35 |
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